The Earth After Rebirth

No student names were mentioned but Kiro knew his brother. He knew just the kind of troublemaker he was.

"Oh my, do you think Yuri is alright?" Hiro was looking at same screen Kiro was looking at.

Though he wasn\'t quite sure whether his sister was behaving over there. Yuri had her mood swings, sometimes she was nice, other times, not so much.

"What are you talking about, Yuri is an angel! Those two on the other hand!" Kiro countered.

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Hiro shook his head, he\'d known Yuri for a little while so he didn\'t know just about everything about her.

"Those two? You mean Loki and LJ?"

"Who else? Those little rascals!" He complained, praying there wouldn\'t be any phone calls from the principal this time.

He almost fell from where he sat, when his phone rung. The sleep from the night before refreshed him to the highest degree, but seeing who was calling drained him quickly.

"Speak of the devil." He sighed hoping the phone call would\'ve been a mistake, but it never stopped ringing.

When he finally answered, he saw the rarest most sincere smile coming from his brother. He was clear utterly proud of himself. Kiro had a frown at first but couldn\'t help but smirk seeing his little brother\'s expression.

"What are you so happy about?" He asked, a little bit agitated.

"Don\'t think I didn\'t see that you smiled because I\'m smiling." He bragged.

"Tsk. What do you want?" He quickly shot at him, he didn\'t have time to entertain his younger brother.

"Can\'t I just call my favourite brother in the world?" He smiled innocently.

"Loki, what did you do? Most importantly, I\'m the only brother you have." Kiro had his eyebrow raised.

"Not anymore, Philip exists now."

Kiro felt a a pang in his heart that he\'d totally forgotten that Philip was an existing entity. Having an older sibling wasn\'t something he was quite used to, and Philip would understand that too. It would take some getting used to.

"I just want you to know that, I know what you\'re doing and I\'m in full support of it, more than you know." He said winking, as if Kiro was supposed to understanding his very cryptic message.

"Okay, thank you for that little brother, is there anything else? I need to go..."

Loki frowned looking at his brother\'s confused expression. Kiro wasn\'t usually this slow, but he absolutely didn\'t think anything of what Loki was trying to tell him. He didn\'t expect him to know anything about it, most importantly he didn\'t expect him to even care. So nothing connected in his mind.

"I guess I\'ll have to spell it out for you?" He sighed, thinking of a way to say it without saying it.

So he reminded his big brother of the day he had Hiro in his room and vaguely acted out some things that happened that day, so as to jog his memories. It didn\'t take long for him to realise.

"Oh...ohh...no." That\'s all he managed to get out, he didn\'t want his kid brother to get involved in this, especially not LJ. Wilfred would kill them.

"Ah. Yes. Yes. Our rooms are somehow connected, though I won\'t tell you how."

"Air vents, I\'m not a dunce." But his focus was entirely within himself. He was biting his thumb, thinking of ways to convince Loki otherwise.

"I know I can\'t convince you away from this, but, Loki, this isn\'t a game." He said seriously.

"I know that, I..."

He was cut off before he could brag about how grown he was, and just how much he could handle on his own.

"No, Loki, you don\'t. You don\'t fully understand the gravity of it all. If you did, you\'d be scared right now not excited. This is extremely dangerous, they could go after mum or our siblings. I almost died that time, so please, don\'t do anything stupid, I\'d prefer if you dumped all the work on my shoulders. Just like you always have."

Loki could see his brother\'s perspective. If he was honest with himself, he didn\'t quite think that far. He also thought that their family was safe in the upper district.

Kiro knew that they were but he also didn\'t want to take the word of a very rotten society. He still wanted to leave a hole for doubt. That\'s why he insisted on acting in the shadows, he didn\'t trust that his family was truly safe. Especially against high society.

But he could also see the disappointment in his brother\'s face. Like he\'d taken one of his favourite toys and smashed it with a hammer right in front of them. He remembered how excited he was when he first shared his accomplishments.

"Loki, I see you. Keep elevating your standing at the school. It\'s important." He gave him a toothy grin and a thumbs up. "I\'m really proud of you."

Even though he was still taken aback by him finding out about their biggest secret mission. He was still proud that the first thing he thought of was helping them.

He was extremely happy that it didn\'t seem like the money they now had, had gone to his head and made him more of a menace. He was just his normal self, though he felt a little bit sorry for the principal. A normal Loki wasn\'t any better.

"He knows." He told Hiro.

"Knows what?" He asked not having paid attention to the call, he was busy wrecking his brain to come up with ways to master the potion.

It was the strangest thing. Even out in the real world, he was still working. Something told him, he had a faint feeling that, they didn\'t really want to find out what happens when a harbinger isn\'t defeated. The game already felt too real.

"That little rascal found out about that, he spied on us back at home."

That\'s when it clicked for Hiro. He looked really scared and concerned. He hoped they would do this all undercover without their families finding out.

"Don\'t worry, he won\'t tell." Kiro put him at ease.

"Then, what does he want?"

"To help us." He smiled slightly.